Author Notes: There is no excuse as to why I haven't updated, so I'm not going to bother with giving one. So, instead I'll go to the normal 'Review Answers' ^^
Answers to Reviews
Rory4 - Weird.. You were in a real haunted house? Did anything weird happen while you were there? Like seeing ghosts maybe? =^.^= Hehehe.. He liked it? That's great! That's sweet.. Your so lucky you have a boyfriend.. :: pouts and turns green with envy :: I don't have a boyfriend! Er.. Wait.. :: looks to all guys reading this story.. :: I'm single!!!! ^^;
Shanelover1 - Hehe.. I wanted to make him really really scary, I had this certain picture in my mind of him and what all was happening, it was enough to scare me so even though it sounds cruel, I hope I scared someone with it ^^;;;;;;;; Cause that's what he's there for.
Dark Ice Dragon - Hmm.. Barbossa? :: Grins :: Now you know I can't answer to that or to whether Tom died or not.. But I have * a lot* planned for this story! Hehehe, its going to be great! :: Gets all excited :: ^^;;
Jadedrose01 - I know.. I'm so sorry. All I'm really going to say is that around Christmas I got sick with the flu and then once I got over it I got sick again! The doctor said it was a "Flu like sickness" ;; I was so mad ^^;; Next time.. I'm getting a flu shot! ^^;;
A Hearty Life
The Skeleton Curse
Chapter Eight
By MoonLight Star
As Lynn crawled onto the beach, her arms staggering from tiredness, the sand sticked to her wet form, staining itself onto her cloths and in her hair, she truly smelt of the ocean now.
She collapsed to the ground, gasping for air and relaxing her muscles. She always considered herself a good swimmer, but after swimming that distance she had to doubt her own thoughts. Especially when she looked to her side and saw Jack, who looked like he just took a refreshing stroll through the park. She couldn't help the smile that spread over her face as she thought of what the two of them must look like to any on lookers.
"We best get going, love. We don't want anybody to see me." Remembering the reason why they were here in the first place, Lynn nodded her head as she pushed herself away from the ground. Her gaze dropped to her cloths which was covered in sand. A small blush stained her cheeks as Jack looked at her sand covered cloths. Embarrassed she wrapped her arms around her stomach, covering the sand from his view.
A small grin lit up Jack's dark features. 'She gets embarrassed so easy..' He thought mischievously. He stored that bit of information away for later, knowing it would be fun to playfully tease her later. With that thought in mind and with a wide smile on his face as he thought up of different ways to play with her, they walked away from the beach, looking for somewhere to stay. Jack was already feeling himself get attached to this young girl that came from seemingly nowhere.
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The old two story house looked threatening, even to those who knew nothing of what people liked to call 'The Skeleton Curse.' The house itself reeked of something horrible, though what it was nobody could say, some say it was the victims of the ghosts, sending out messages to all who was near by to save them, to set them free. Others who were more dramatic would say it was death itself, though nobody knew for sure just what it was that made the house so depressingly scary.
Its surroundings didn't help what would be a nice house view. The old white creaky house was set on top of a hill. But, it was as if the house itself was cursed because leading up to the hill the grass faded out and all that was there was dirt and rocks. It seemed as if mother nature herself refused to go near the house.
The forest just behind the house was said to be cursed as well. Though how that rumor came up nobody really knew, maybe it was just because of the way the tree's limbs leaned over the house, casting a dark shadow over it.
Or maybe it was the long roots of the trees that seemed to reach out to people, getting in the way of their feet and tripping them. Not matter what it was, the house was always cast in the dark, never seeing the light. Most felt that it was right to do that. That the entire area was so cursed that it didn't become cast in the shadows by accident. They thought it was so evil that the sun refused to grace it with her sweet rays of light.
But there were other questions… Lynn had heard the story of this house from her sister, she had found out just that day, even. Her sister, Toni and Lynn didn't know of the other story surrounding the house.
The house was called 'The Skeleton Curse' but nobody could figure out why, and a few had to wonder how some of the rumors began, somebody had to be there to spread them, right? Maybe it wasn't just rumors. People do say rumors start with a fraction of the truth. But what all was truth and what wasn't?
All of this was on the minds of the people in the small town of Hot Springs as word spread out that another person had disappeared in it. A young girl. Nobody knew who she was, they had never heard of her so rumors flurred up that she was here to spy on all of them and then to go tell the ghosts who was the best person to take away to their halls of hell.
Though others knew this was nonsense, mostly the girl's family and friends. Others who didn't believe any such things were worried that she had been kidnapped.
Nobody knew, but this girl's name now rang across the small town everywhere.
Lynn Ann Heart.